During the third day of the epic battle between Apple and Samsung, the Cupertino kid threw some more accusations at the Korea company, saying that not only have they copied their physical designs from Apple, they´ve even copied their icon designs in Samsung´s own TouchWiz UI. The TouchWiz UI is layered on top of the stock Android UI. Many phone manufacturers have their own “wrapper” they place on top of Android to place their signature on otherwise basic phones. HTC, for instance, uses HTC Sense UI in their Android offerings.

The phone icon is shown in the first of 6 examples, with Apple´s icon set above a grid of 8 different Samsung logos used for 8 different devices. Each icon features a white phone facing east on top of a green background. Apple´s icon has a bit of a gradient to it, while most of the Samsung icons use plain green.

In the second example, Apple´s iTunes logo is seen amongst another grid of 8 Samsung icons. Each feature a combination of a CD, an eighth note, and the color purple, all features of the iTunes store icon.

The Contacts icon is up next, and in this example, Samsung´s icon looks least like Apple´s in the set of 6.

Apple´s icon features a silhouette on top of a beige binder complete with tabs.

Each of Samsung´s icons feature the same silhouette, but are set on top of a 2-ring binder clad in an orange to yellow icon. Similar, yet different.

Apple also accuses Samsung of ripping off their notes, photos and settings apps. In each instance, the Samsung icon looks suspiciously similar to Apple´s and only vary in small, seemingly insignificant ways.

Apple will use two user interface experts to plead their case for them, including the designer of the famous Happy Mac icon, Susan Kare. It´s not hard to see how Samsung´s icons may have been inspired by Apple, but when they´re placed side-by-side as Apple has done in their evidence, it becomes glaringly obvious that there are some striking similarities.

Apple has been efficient with their trial time, leaving several hours before Samsung has a turn to plead their case.

Their actions and accusations suggest Apple is quite confident in their claims, a far cry from Samsung´s behavior thus far of releasing rejected evidence to the press and accusing Apple of ripping off “2001: A Space Odyssey.”